#40 Cocktail: Bacardi Cocktail

       The cuban Daiquiri became known as the Bacardi Cocktail, especially in the USA. This variant, which became established later on, featured a dash of Grenadine, lending it a different colour to its Daiquiri competitors which used other brands of rum. This cocktail is the first example of a copyright protected recipe. After Prohibition ended, many bars on the American mainland began serving Bacardi Cocktails without the original ingredient. One of these establishments was the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, which was thereupon sued by the Bacardi company. In 1936 the New York Supreme Court ruled that a Bacardi cocktail must contain Bacardi Rum.

   According to a story in the Washington Post in 1937, at the end of Prohibition, the Bacardi Cocktail began to unseat the Martini as the most favored cocktail, something most thought could never happen.

    Combining Bacardi rum, lime and Grenadine in a cocktail shaker with ice and shaking until cold seems a precursor to today’s Cosmopolitan…pink, both sweet and tart and certainly trendy.

2 ounces Bacardi Rum

1 ounce lime juice

1/2 ounce grenadine